Creating a staging environment

[Karl Pfeil]

In the documentation Creating a staging environment for upgrading Confluence - under #3 Replicate Confluence - step #5 Start Confluence with the following .. where do you edit?

-Datlassian.notifications.disabled=true
-Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true 

 Also under #3 Replicate Confluence - My current confluence is a VM, VMware with a Simplivity host. If I were do a restore from a backup turn off the current and power on the restored VM - different name. Could I just edit the confluence-init. properties and the confluence.cfg.xml, edited the base URL, license will be the same, and check system information. Would this work? Of course I would have backed up the DB and restored with another name. But I would still need to stop the send notification from my first question.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Check out https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-system-properties-168002854.html on how to give the additional properties on startup.

I didn't fully get the second part of the question but, yes, you can edit the base url to point to the new url.

[Karl Pfeil]

So ad just add it - See last two lines: does this need to be at the end? - ${CATALINA_OPTS}

# Set the JVM arguments used to start Confluence. For a description of the options, see
# http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html
CATALINA_OPTS="-XX:-PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:-PrintTenuringDistribution ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="-Xloggc:$LOGBASEABS/logs/gc-`date +%F_%H-%M-%S`.log -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=5 -XX:GCLogFileSize=2M ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="-XX:G1ReservePercent=20 ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.plugins.enable.wait=300 ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:+UseG1GC ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.notifications.disabled=true"
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true"

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Something like this:

CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.notifications.disabled=true -Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true ${CATALINA_OPTS}"

[Karl Pfeil]

Thanks. Now the next step #6 - Head to http://localhost:<port> does not seem to work. I must be missing something?